Did You Ever Have A Job At The Mall?

I grew up in northern New Jersey and I watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High religiously in my youth, so it's kind of surprising that I never had a job at that mecca of fast food and cheap T-shirts known as the mall.

In the latest issue of W magazine, Amy Adams confesses that part of her heart still lies in the southern mall she worked in when she was a teenager: "At the Oscars this past February, for instance, while millions of television viewers watched her sitting in the front row, wearing a claret-colored Carolina Herrera dress and a killer Fred Leighton necklace, Adams was, in her mind, thousands of miles away, in the Atlanta mall where she worked after high school. 'I just was so reflective the whole evening on how I came to be sitting in that room,' she recalls a few weeks later. 'At one point my fianc?� was like, "You feel distant." And I said, "I am! I can't even talk to you!" I was there at the Oscars thinking, What if I never left the Gap?'"

Were you a master sweater-folder at your own local Gap? Did you have an after-school job at Claire's? Or did you serve up Orange Julius in the food court? Was it cool in your hometown to work at the mall? Did all of your friends do it too, like in Fast Times? Share!